University of Manchester - Archive (climate-change)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) published its first major report 28 years ago. This watershed document described the ominous implications of escalating emissions and the scale of the challenge in reversing this seemingly ...

Microwaves usage across the EU alone emits as much carbon dioxide as nearly seven million cars according to a new study by The University of Manchester. Researchers at the University have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the environm...

Patsy Perry, University of Manchester
It’s tough to love our clothes and keep wearing them for longer when we are faced with a tempting array of newness on offer in the shops. But before you head out into the January sales for those irresistible d...

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Marc Hudson, University of Manchester and Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester
Unusually for a large UN climate conference, the recent Bonn talks didn’t finish with any late-night haggling. Progress, in th...

As the world gathers in Bonn for COP23, the UN’s annual climate change conference, Professor Mike Barnes, from The University of Manchester's School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, outlines why he thinks offshore wind could be a boom industry...

‘Business as usual’ is not an option for the UK’s nuclear energy sector; our energy companies’ ‘regressive and unjust funding approach’ is causing fuel poverty, and the Northern Powerhouse could play a key role in shaping the UK’s climate change futu...

Five things that should happen at the Bonn climate talks but probably won’t
Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester and Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
The world’s leaders are meeting – again – for talks on climate change. This year’s ...

Bonn voyage: climate diplomats head into another round of talks
Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
Here we go again. For longer than some of us can remember and the rest of us care to, there have been annual climate change international conf...

How can Zebra poo tell us what an animal’s response to climate change and habitat destruction will be? That is what scientists from The University of Manchester and Chester Zoo have been investigating in South Africa.
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Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
Writing for The Conversation is not, sadly, a paid gig. If it were, I’d have asked for danger money before seeing the mesmerisingly bad movie Geostorm. But as the weather is now political, I braved the terrors...

Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
Tonight former Prime Minister Tony Abbott will be in London to give a speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, titled “Daring to Doubt”, in which he will reportedly argue that climate policy is “shuttin...

New international research led by The University of Manchester has highlighted that learning from previous periods of climate change is essential if we are to understand the vulnerability of species and ecosystems to global warming.
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Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
It’s a year to the day since the entire state of South Australia was plunged into darkness. And what a year it’s been, for energy policy geeks and political tragics alike.
Parked at the western end of the e...

Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
On August 30, 1992 in Sydney, media were invited to a press conference to launch a new national political party: The Australian Greens. It was a Sunday, and no television crews bothered to turn up. One journo ...

What a gas: one of Moreland’s new hydrogen-powered garbage trucks. Takver/Flickr.com, CC BY
Marc Hudson, University of Manchester
A while ago I asked what types of people will lead our great energy transition.
Well, some of them seem to ...

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Ian Mell, University of Manchester
London’s proposed “Garden Bridge” is no more. After years of controversy, the city’s mayor has finally sunk the idea into the Thames.
The notion of a bridge covered in plants and...

Today (Thursday 15th June) is the first ever National Clean Air Day and Professor Hugh Coe says it is imperative we reduce air pollution in our towns and cities.
“Poor air quality in our cities has been estimated to lead to over 40,000 premature d...

Tornadoes are an underestimated threat across Europe with the UK, Germany, and northern Italy at the greatest risk as tornado season fast approaches.
That’s according to new research by meteorologists at the University of Manchester’s Centre for A...

An international team of scientists, including a physiologist from The University of Manchester, will head to the largest island in the world later this month to investigate the Greenland shark – believed to be the longest-lived vertebrate animal.
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A consortium of 13 organisations, including universities, think tanks, and the business sector, is coming together to form a specialist ‘knowledge hub’ to help people from across Europe tackle the issue of energy poverty.
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